Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan Topham: Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 45).

• Jürgen Meyer

Particularly profitable within the cultural project of a large-scale ‘history of reading’ (R. Darnton) is the focus on the reception history of science in 19th-century periodicals, continuing A. Ellegård’s study of Darwin and the General Reader (1958). Within this context, it has become widely accepted that scientific knowledge was popularized by both well-educated if non-specialized writers, and the representatives of a scientific elite.

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